Stella

• Williams- 'I think her natural passivity is one of the things that makes her acceptance of Stanley acceptable'
• She acts as the fulcrum between 2 energetic forces- neurotic feverish excitability of Blanche vs sexual magnetism of Stanley
• Stella's name embodies the tension between the former life and her new life in Elysian Fields 'Stella for star'-> 'STELLAHHHH!'
• Stage directions-' a gentle young woman about twenty-five and of a background obviously quite different from her husbands' - compared to his extensive usual descriptions